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University of Cincinnati Law ReviewVolume 87 Issue 2Article 143435Incentives, Culture, and Change in American Legal EducationCaleb N. GriffinRegent Un How American is the American College Fraternity- Examining the Euniversity, cgriffin@regent.eduFollow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.uc.edu/uclrRecommended CitationCaleb N. Griffin. Incentives. Culture, and Change in American Legal Education. 87 u. Cin. L. Rev. 325 (2018)Available at: https://scholarship.lav0UC.edU/uclr/vol87/iss2/1This Lea How American is the American College Fraternity- Examining the Eud Article is brought to you for free and open access by University of Cincinnati College of Law Scholarship and Publications. It has been accepted forHow American is the American College Fraternity- Examining the Eu
inclusion in University of Cincinnati Law Review by an authorized editor of University of Cincinnati College of Law Scholarship and Publications. ForUniversity of Cincinnati Law ReviewVolume 87 Issue 2Article 143435Incentives, Culture, and Change in American Legal EducationCaleb N. GriffinRegent Un How American is the American College Fraternity- Examining the EuionCaleb N. GriffinABSTRACTIn theory, law school rankings merely describe law schools as they are, providing basic details about each school that may be relevant to prospective law students In practice, however, law school rankings have a tremendous influence on law students and the legal profession How American is the American College Fraternity- Examining the Eu. For better or for worse, the rank of a given student's school will often have a substantia! impact OU the arc of his or her legal careerRankings alsHow American is the American College Fraternity- Examining the Eu
o have a tremendous influence on law schools themselves. One source of this influence is that a high ranking draws strong candidates, and strong candiUniversity of Cincinnati Law ReviewVolume 87 Issue 2Article 143435Incentives, Culture, and Change in American Legal EducationCaleb N. GriffinRegent Un How American is the American College Fraternity- Examining the Eucuring important changes relevant to prospective students and legal employers.But is this a problem? The status quo might be acceptable if law school rankings were based solely on objective data that measured factors in a way that was truly reflective of the needs of students, legal employers, and s How American is the American College Fraternity- Examining the Euociety at large. Such an idea! ranking would provide a useful service for prospective students, and it would incentivize law schools to engage in sociHow American is the American College Fraternity- Examining the Eu
ally beneficial behavior.This Article sets out to explore what factors ought to be used in an ideal ranking system. It considers how various factors cUniversity of Cincinnati Law ReviewVolume 87 Issue 2Article 143435Incentives, Culture, and Change in American Legal EducationCaleb N. GriffinRegent Un How American is the American College Fraternity- Examining the Eue used to serve the interests of law students and society and to propel legal education towards positive change.325Published by University of Cincinnati College of Lav/ Scholarship and Publications, 20181University of Cincinnati Law Review, Vol. 87, Iss. 2 (2018), Art. 1326University of Cinc innati How American is the American College Fraternity- Examining the EuLaw Review[Vol. S7I. Introduction"ĩĩlien ire measure something ire are forcing an undetermined, undefined world io assume an experimental value. He arHow American is the American College Fraternity- Examining the Eu
e not ’measuring' the world, we are creating it" - Niels BohrThere is great power in measurement. When we measure or quantify something, the effects oUniversity of Cincinnati Law ReviewVolume 87 Issue 2Article 143435Incentives, Culture, and Change in American Legal EducationCaleb N. GriffinRegent Un How American is the American College Fraternity- Examining the Euntly, however, what is being measured often does not remain static. Instead, measurement may also change the very nature of that which is being measured. It is in this way that measurement and quantification transcend simply describing the world as it exists and instead create a new reality.At first How American is the American College Fraternity- Examining the Eu blush, a ranking of law schools may seem like a modest effort to outline some basic characteristics about particular schools. Certainly, many rankingHow American is the American College Fraternity- Examining the Eu
s of law schools perform this function. Prospective students can see information such as average class sizes, student-faculty ratios, an institution'sUniversity of Cincinnati Law ReviewVolume 87 Issue 2Article 143435Incentives, Culture, and Change in American Legal EducationCaleb N. GriffinRegent Un How American is the American College Fraternity- Examining the Euticipants and relieving problems of asymmetric information.1 * 3 This is especially important given the high cost of legal education, in the form of tuition and fees, opportunity' cost due to tune that could be spent working, and the high transaction costs that accompany transferring to a different How American is the American College Fraternity- Examining the Eulaw school.However, rankings designed to measure law schools as they are may in fact change the very things they set out to measure. Because ranking sHow American is the American College Fraternity- Examining the Eu
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